Cloud Optimization | Hokstad Consulting

AWS vs Azure for Gaming Workloads

April 17, 2026 Cloud Computing Cloud Optimization Cost Management Performance

Compare AWS and Azure for multiplayer game hosting: performance, costs, GPUs, latency, scalability and UK region differences.

April 15, 2026 Cloud Optimization Cost Management Disaster Recovery

Compare AWS, Azure and Google storage tiers, fees and hidden costs to choose the most cost‑effective cloud storage.

April 15, 2026 Cloud Optimization Cost Management DevOps Management

Most teams waste up to half their DevOps storage — audit artifacts, tier storage, automate retention and caching to cut costs.

April 14, 2026 DevOps Management Automation Cloud Optimization

Five steps to integrate GitOps and CI/CD: build and tag images, commit manifests, use a GitOps operator, enable auto-sync and rollbacks.

April 14, 2026 Cloud Computing Cloud Optimization Disaster Recovery Performance

Narrow SLA definitions and capped credits can leave your business exposed—use this checklist to verify uptime, support and enforcement.

April 13, 2026 DevOps Management Cloud Optimization Cost Management

Break down the financial and operational costs of building IaC in‑house and learn lower‑risk alternatives.

April 12, 2026 DevOps Management Cloud Optimization Compliance Management Performance

Unified logs, metrics and traces to cut hosting costs, reach 99.9% uptime and reduce MTTR from 45 to 8 minutes.

April 11, 2026 Cloud Optimization Cost Management DevOps Management

Standardise billing, enforce tagging and set real-time alerts to stop multi-cloud cost errors and reduce unexpected spend.

April 11, 2026 DevOps Management Cloud Optimization Performance

Low-cost distributed tracing for Kubernetes using object storage and a no‑index architecture; integrates with Prometheus and Loki.

April 10, 2026 DevOps Management Cloud Optimization Performance

Compare Consul and Istio on platform support, traffic control, observability, resource use and when to choose each.

April 10, 2026 Cloud Optimization Cost Management Performance

GPU hourly rates in 2025 varied up to 10× by region and provider; spot pricing, egress and co-location drive 2–5× savings.

April 08, 2026 Cloud Optimization Automation Cost Management Performance

Build vendor reporting frameworks with KPIs, automation and AI to cut cloud costs, boost delivery and reduce incidents.